Duke Ellington & His Orchestra The Conny Plank Session Jacket LP + 7" Recorded live and entirely on

Recorded live and entirely on a 16 track analogue rig the album captures the close chemistry between Norgren and his band

Saint Anthony's Jawbone D5

upbeat R&B of "Ludwig" closes out this quite remarkable album

Design Feature: Pink Horses

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra The Conny Plank Session Jacket LP + 7" Recorded live and entirely onDuke Ellingtons musical works are seemingly well documented; the likelihood of finding a good,unreleased Duke Ellington recording is slight at best. When Grnland Records called and told me they had found exactly that in Conny Planks estate and asked me if I wanted to give it a listen, I felt pretty honored, and excited. The music of Duke Ellington is in my worldview to jazz what Bachs oeuvre is to classical music: THE great benchmark, or to raise it